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Read about outplacement programmes and services. This is information aimed at organisations going through change: why use outplacement and its benefits, how to plan and prepare for it, what to expect from it and more.

Are you being made redundant? That’s tough. There is never a good time to be made redundant. As someone who’s been through it enough times and as someone who has worked with plenty of redundees as an outplacement coach, please believe me when I say – from to bottom of my heart – I...

Every once in a while I come across a blog or an article that calls for the death of the CV. I completely get it. CVs have become a type of junk mail that just clutters our lives. It actually has come to be pure rubbish flyers through the door: I have had...

One of things people are most interested in when they are looking for a new job is interview practice. It’s true, interviews are a hard nut to crack. To help get past this, most people want to be prepared. It’s really important to emphasise, that by the time you get to the interview, you’ve...

A lot can be said about outplacement, past, present and future – just as a lot can be said about HR practices. A recent series of conversation about the latter warrant some thoughts about the former. I attended my first unconference the week before last, a wonderful event run by the fantastic @PerryTimms and...

Redundancies are a very difficult time in any organisation. It’s difficult on the people who go through it and it is difficult on the people that have to manage it. It requires making difficult decisions from all those involved, decisions that often impact their career, their personal life and their own wellbeing. Providing outplacement...

This week’s Outplacement Diaries is from Neil Fell in London: “In the autumn of 2009 the bank I worked for nearly 3 years closed its doors. It was a pretty dispiriting experience having been part of the team which built it from scratch. The banking crisis claimed us as one of its many...